00:00Tom, what attracted you to this project in the first place?
00:05So actually, well, at the time, I'd been reading a lot of scripts and none of them had really kind
00:10of, I was looking for, I remember looking for a movie at that time and I was like, nothing's really
00:15kind of making me tick. And I remember wanting a good comedy, you know, I wanted something that
00:20made me laugh and, and some of those scripts did that, but I didn't have the right role in it,
00:26you know, and then this kind of ticked all the boxes. It was so much fun. It also had like a
00:30hidden message. It was female driven. And I, I just really loved the role of Logan. I saw my
00:38version of it. That big thing for me is like, when I'm reading a script is, can I see my version of
00:43that guy, you know? And, and when I read this, I, my wife always says that she knows that when I'm
00:50reading a script, I like, because I start reading the lines of the character that I'm looking at.
00:54So I was guilty as charged on that one. So, and then, yeah, I met Liz, the director,
01:02and it kind of ticked all the boxes for me.
01:07Why do you think people is so fascinated about space? And now that the space tourism is a reality,
01:15would you go on a space trip? Would you like to go?
01:19I think eventually, yeah. I think when it's been tried and tested a little bit,
01:23I'd be up for it. I think people are fascinated with space because it's the unknown, right? It's
01:29like why the same reason why people are fascinated with the ocean is because we don't know what's
01:34down there. And we don't know what's up there. I'm, I for one, I'm very fascinated with what's
01:39up there. You know, I, I, I can't believe for a second that we're the only species
01:46in our galaxy, let alone the universe and what it all is up there. I start to go a bit cross-eyed
01:52if I think too hard about what's up there. So I think that's part of it, right? Because we're only,
01:56we're only subject to what we know on this planet. So I think there's a big thing about what's,
02:01what's beyond it. How was working with Emma and the rest of the cast?
02:07Oh, we had so much fun. It was a great, it was a brilliant ensemble cast, actually.
02:12All the, all the guys who play all the different space cadets, you know, they're,
02:15they're brilliant and we had so much fun. And then working with Emma and Gab very closely,
02:22you know, we, we had a really great time. They were both brilliant to work with and,
02:26you know, great collaborators along with Liz, the director. It was brilliant. We had a really good
02:31time. What would you say is the message of this film? I think, I think the message is
02:39chase your dreams, you know, go after your dreams, which I'm a big advocate of. I think
02:45that anything is possible if you put your mind to it and you, you, you put a plan in place to get
02:51there. Or if you cheat on your resume as well, that also works. So yeah, I think that's the
02:57really important message behind it. Before filming, did you do any kind of research?
03:03Yeah, I read, I read some books and I read, my favourite one was Spaceman by Mike Massimino,
03:11who's in the movie as well. I chatted a lot with Mike about his book, you know, because I,
03:17because I actually did the audio book. So I was listening to his voice. He reads the audio book.
03:23So I was listening to his voice while in the gym and stuff. And he was telling me all about his
03:27life as an astronaut. And it's so interesting and his journey to become, and it really was his
03:35dream to become an astronaut from a young kid. And he just followed that path and put
03:40everything in place that he needed to do to get there and never wavered from it. And I believe
03:45that's what you need to do for any dream that you have is you just walk towards it, put a plan in
03:50place and walk towards it. And that's what he did, you know, and he's a great advocate of the space
03:54programme.
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